Conductor&#39;s check holding and cutting device.



PATENTED JUNE 5, 1906.

A. D. JCSLIN.` CONDUCTORS CHECK HOLDING AND CUTTING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 25, 1905.

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CONDUCTORS CHECK HOLDING AND CUTTING: DEVICE.I

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 5, 1906.

Application iiled August 25, 1905. Serial No. 275,773.

T0 a/ZZ whom t may concern.:

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER D. Jos- LIN, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing in Chicago, in the county of Cook and State ofIllinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Conductors CheckHolding and Cutting Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is a modification of what has been shown in previouspatents granted to me upon holders for tickets, checks, &c.- such, forinstance, as the one shown in my Patent No. 467,936, of February 2,1892. My endeavor therein has been to do away with the metal box orholdershell of the patented construction, thereby effecting a very-considerable economy in construction and also lightening andsimplifying the device. This end I accomplish as follows:

I take a series of the tickets or checks and arrange them one on top ofanother in book or tablet form and then mount the series on a pasteboardor equivalent base, and secure them to such base by suitable means,preferably consisting of the severing blade or straight edge and themeans by which the blade is held to the base. By this construction thebook or tablet of tickets is securely clamped between rigid parts-t'.e., the base and the blade-and as the means for holding the blade areadapted to contract as the pile of tickets or checks diminishes itfollows that the blade exerts a constant pressure on the pile, and suchpressure is sufficient to retain the tickets in orderly form during theuse of the package and until the last ticket is used. The tickets may beloose-that is, unattached to each other-or they may, if preferred, bebound together in any suitable way-as, for instance, by stapling orsewing them together after the manner of binding pamphlets or by pastingstrips of paper to their edges. The latter construction is the oneillustrated herein.

'Ihe severing-blade or straight edge, with its sliding cutters, may beattached to the tablet by means of a rubber band or other springfastening device adapted to hold the blade flat upon the top of thetickets or checks and to contract as the pile diminishes in height, soas to continue the pressure thereon. The proper position of the bladerelative to the severing-line of the tickets or checks is insured byproviding the tablets or books with vertical guiding slots or notches ineach end and the blade with projections at each end adapted to enter theslots or notches and to move down in the same as the tickets arewithdrawn from the pile.

These and other details of the invention are fully set forth below andillustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which latter- Figure 1 is aplan of the invention. Fig. 2 is an end elevation. Figs. 3 and 4 aresections on the lines 3 3 and 4 4, respectively, of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 showsthe severed ticket.

In said drawings, 5 represents the base of the book or tablet, formed ofpasteboard or other inexpensive material having the rigidity necessary.It is of the same size as the tickets and without any vertical flangeswhatever. The tickets or checks, which generally consist of theconductors cash-fare slip 6 and the auditors stub 7, are arranged in apile on the base 5 and are desirably secured thereto by paper or clothstrips 8 and 9, pasted to the base and to the top and bottom edges ofthe tickets or checks, the tickets and base thus forming a tablet inwhich the longitudinal edges of the tickets are left free to be takenhold of by the conductor.

The straight edge or severing-blade shown at 10 is adapted to lie flatupon the top of the pile of checks or tickets and to be held against theface of the tickets by the thumb of the conductor while each ticket isdivided and its halves removed. It is provided with the adjustablecutters 11, shown in my said patents, and employed to form theindicating notches and projections on the edges of the severed parts ofthe tickets, and such cutters are preferably so made that they may besprung onto and off the blade. The blade is held to the tablet by therubber band 12, which is passed under the base and looped over the hooks13, formed at the ends ofthe blade. I use the rubber band for thispurpose as it is the simplest and cheapest device known to me andbecause it is adapted to contract as the tickets are withdrawn and tohold the blade down on them with a uniform pressure at all times; butany other construction of attaching device may be used which willaccomplish the same results.

For the positioning of the blade I form in the ends of the tabletvertical guide slots or notches 14 and rovide the blade at each end withsmall bac rward or downward projections 15, adapted to enter said slotsand to move down in them as the blade moves down- IOO IIO

ward in obedience to the spring-attaching device, the blade being -thusheld against either longitudinal or lateral movement.

The bunch of'tickets thus secured together in tablet form is welladapted to retain its shape and integrity in the pocket and in thehandling to which it is necessarily subjected, and the blade is alwaysin proper position for severing the ticket, and it will be understoodthat while I have illustrated the invention as applied to a tablet oftickets l do not wish to be limited to the tablet form nor to the use ofthe binding-strips illustrated.

The blade 10 and cutter l1 are adapted to be used in separating theauditors stub from the fare-slip, forming in vso doing the notch uponone and the projection upon the other, as plainly shown at Fig. 5. Theguidenotches in the ends of the ticket tend to insure the tearing of theticket in commencing the severing operation at the proper point, whichis witthin the notch rather than outside of it.

I claiml. In a check holding and cutting device, the combination of asevering-blade having sliding cutters, and a contractible deviceattached at both ends to the said blade and arranged to passlongitudinally along the back of a series of checks when the latter areinterposed between the blade and the said contractible device,substantially as set forth.

2. In a check holding and cutting device, the combination of asevering-blade having sliding cutters, and a contractible deviceattached at both ends to the said blade and arranged to pass therefrombackward and through the recesses of a series of recessed checks, andalong the back of the checks from one series olrecesses to the otherseries of recesses, when such checks are interposed between the bladeand the said contractible device, substantially as set forth.

3. The check holding and severing device consisting of a basecorresponding in size to the tickets, a severing-blade carrying slidingcutters, said blade having projections adapted to enter and move inslots in the edges of the tickets and a contractiblewattaching devicefor securing the blade to the base.

4. The cheek holding and severing device ceases consisting of a base forthe pile of tickets, a severing-blade provided with sliding cuttersadapted to be placed across the top of the pile and means for attachingthe blade to the base in such manner as to produce pressure upon thetickets, said attaching means being adapted to enter notches formed inthe edges of the tickets.

5. The check holding and severing device consisting of a basecorresponding in size to the tickets, a severing-blade carrying slidingcutters, said blade having projections adapted to enter and move inrecesses formed in the tickets and a contractible attaching device iorsecuring the blade to the base.

6. The check holding and severing device consisting. of a base for thepile of tickets, a severing-blade provided with sliding cutters adaptedto be placed across the top of the pile and means for attaching theblade to the base in such manner as to produce pressure upon thetickets, said attaching means being adapted to enter recesses formed inthe tickets.

7. The check-holding device, the severingblade whereof is provided withdownward projections adapted to engage the tickets or checks and thus beheld against change of position along the face of and relative to thetickets while the tickets are being withdrawn.

8. The check-holding device, the severingblade whereof is provied withdownward projections adapted to engage the tickets or checks and thus beheld against change 'of position relative to the tickets, in combinationwith a contractible device causing constant pressure by the blade uponthe tickets and downward movement by it as the tickets are withdrawn. A.

9. The 4check holding and cutting device consisting of a severing-bladehaving sliding cutters mounted thereon, the said blade having backwardand downward projections arranged to enter in recesses formed in aseries of checks, and to be gradually moved backward in said recesses asthe front checks are cut and issued, substantially as set forth.ALEXANDER D. JOSLN. Witnesses:

H. M. MUNDAY, Enw. S. EvARTs.

